slavery

Prison Labour and the Reconstruction Amendments

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I wrote yesterday about the growth of prison labour in the US and the impact it was having on the US jobs market. I received quite a lot of messages and comments about the 13th Amendment to the US constitution. The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments are know as the Reconstruction Amendments because they were … Read more

Slavery | Toussaint L’Ouverture, Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499, Ann Widdecombe

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Anne Widdecombe announced her arrival in the European Parliament this week with a speech that made a spectacularly ill judged comparison between Brexit and the abolition of slavery. Widdecombe’s views on slavery, the British Empire and the last few hundred years of British history maybe eccentric and unpleasant, but she isn’t the only person with … Read more